Writing paper, card, tablet, or the like.



F. W. EAGELSTON.

WRITING PAPER, CARD, TABLET, OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV-22.1917.

LHLMG. Patented May28, 1918.

WITNESS INV EN TOR.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK W. EAGELSTON, 0F BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR T0 EDWIN W. IBEARDSLEY, TRUSTEE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

WRITING PAPER, CARD, TABLET, OR THE LIKE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK W. EAeELs- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Berkeley, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Writ ing Paper, Cards, Tablets, or the like, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to writing paper and cards, Whether in the form of separate sheets or in pads, tablets or in other forms.

My invention consists in writing paper, cards or the like initially prepared on the surface with deficient characters whose omitted parts, when subsequently intelligently supplied by the user, will transform said characters into readable value units, as, for example, the word, letters, and numerals of a written language.

In its best form, my invention is embodied in such paper, cards or tablets initially supplied with a plurality of pictorial representations of an armless human figure, preferably that of a soldier, whereby the user, by supplying the missing limbs to the figures in varying position and relation, may complete them according to a predetermined code, as, for example, the two-arm semaphore code of flag-signaling, and thereby produce intelligible writing.

My invention is not, however, confined to this specific adaptation, but I deem it an attractive form in that it tends to a useful knowledge of the signaling art, and is beneficial in impressing the code on the memory besides affording interest and amusement in epistolary correspondence.

I shall, therefore, illustrate my invention in this specific connection.

Referring to the accompanying drawings Figure l is a sheet of writing paper initially prepared in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a view of the same sheet showing its use.

Copies 01' thin patent hiay be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 28, 1918.

Application filed November 22, 1917. Serial No. 203,338.

1 is a sheet of writing paper. It may be a separate sheet, or it may be one of a pad of sheets, or it may be a card, or other vehicle for writing. Upon its surface, in any predetermined number, are the representations 2. In the present case, these are delineations, more or less conventional, of an arm less soldier.

In Fig. 2, the user of the sheet is supposed to have supplied the arms 3 in rela tive positions to indicate, according to the Two-Arm Semaphore Code of the Field Service Regulations of the United States Army, the letters required for the expression The Land of Liberty. The incomplete characters 2 may be ori inally supplied by printing them on the s eet, or by rubber stamp or by stencil, or in any manner, and the completion of the characters may be done by the user by pen or pencil strokes or by rubber stamps or stencils, or in any way found convenient.

It will now be seen that much interest and amusement will be afforded by the use of this invention, and by prearrangement various systems may be decided upon. But for commercial purposes the specific illustration given will not only lend interest, but will also perfect ones familiarity with the flag signal code.

I claim Writing paper, cards, pads or the like, having a surface initially prepared with a plurality of pictorial representations of an armless human figure, adapted for the subsequent additions, by the user, of the omitted limbs, in varying relations according to a given code, to indicate words, letters of the alphabet and numerals.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, FRANK W. EAGELSTON.

Wltnessesz WM. F. Boo'rH, D. B. RICHARDS.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

